Death Foretold

There is no death! What seems so is a transition. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

If it weren't for the olive, I'd starve to death. - Unknown

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. - Nancy Reagan

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. - Guy de Maupassant

Prison is the worst experience I've ever had in my life - besides death. - Duane Chapman

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

However much you may try to delay, you are fated to meet the same death as I did. - Tiberius Gracchus

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down. - Woody Allen

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. - Karen Russell

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. - Anais Nin

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. - Soren Kierkegaard

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? - Woody Allen

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question, "Is there life after death?" - Bette Midler

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. - Ernest Hemingway

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins? - Edgar Alan Poe

Sir, your remarks are repugnant to me, and I disagree with your viewpoints. But I will defend to the death your right to express them. - Voltaire

'Till death do us part' doesn't sound so horrible. It only means about 10 or 15 years and not the eternity it used to mean. - Joy Behar

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao

When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan